NY Times Front Lauds Nutty Talarico’s ‘Unusually Complex Theological Arguments’
3rd June 2026
The front page of Tuesday’s New York Times was graced with a profile of James Talarico, the elitist media’s newest hope to finally elect a Democrat in Texas: “Progressive Faith Powers Texas Democrat’s Run — Evangelicals See Threat in Talarico’s Pastor.”
The online headline and subhead was more provocative: “Are Texans Ready for Talarico’s Kind of Christianity? — Jim Rigby, a pastor who rarely uses the word “God,” is a key to understanding the Senate candidate trying to pull off something unusual in Texas.”
As usual, all concerns about mixing religion and politics evaporate once a Democrat seems in striking distance of winning a statewide seat in Texas.
The long profile by Ruth Graham (who covers religion for the paper) and Texas bureau chief J. David Goodman conveniently skipped over most of the theological complications that would render the pastor’s view, and by implication those of Talarico himself, contradictory and absurd.